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Board adopts five-year curriculum rotation to stagger purchases and manage costs
Summary
Frederic School District approved a plan to stagger major curriculum purchases over a five-year rotation (math prioritized next year) to avoid concentrated budget impacts and align purchases with state standard reviews.
The board approved a five-year curriculum-rotation plan intended to spread the cost and implementation of major instructional materials across multiple years.
Administrators said the plan purchases five years of materials for a content area in a given year and staggers other content to avoid buying ELA, math, science and social studies in the same budget cycle. Next year’s purchases will prioritize math (five years of materials), with reading and science purchases staggered to set a longer cycle through 2036. The plan also accounts for annual subscription renewals and required screeners.
Board members emphasized the plan is a working document: it will be updated if state standards change or vendors alter offerings. The approach is designed to make budgeting predictable and avoid the one-time spikes that occurred when federal COVID-relief funds were used to buy many resources in the same year.
